The Marriage Bargain by Sandra Edwards

Author:Sandra Edwards
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Contemporary, General, Romance, Erotica, Fiction, Contemporary Romance
ISBN: 1478273984
Publisher: SE Press
Published: 2011-04-20T21:00:00+00:00

Camille stared out the window at the unfolding scene on the lawn. The guests were starting to arrive. And she still didn’t have a dress. It should’ve been delivered an hour ago. She glanced at the sky, thick and heavy with some of the blackest clouds she’d ever seen. Great. If she was the suspicious kind, and she was getting married for real, she’d say the day’s uneasy events were starting to look like a sign.

She went to Julian’s door and knocked.

“Come in.” Madeleine’s voice, velvet-edged and sickeningly sweet, filtered through the walls.

Could this day get any worse?

Camille plastered on the face of indifference as she opened the door. Seeing Madeleine sprawled out on Julian’s bed was enough to push even the sanest of women over the edge.

She drew in a breath and forbade the claws to emerge. “Where is Julian?” Camille asked, staying in the entryway and hanging onto the doorknob.

“Shower.” Madeleine’s snarky tone and her expression irked Camille.

Camille tilted her brow and looked at Madeleine with ambiguity.

“Well,” Madeleine laughed at her, “You don’t want him standing beside you, declaring to keep himself only unto you, while he reeks of me, do you?”

She thought about backing out of the room. She thought about asking Madeleine to pass on a message—like that would happen. She thought about barging into Julian’s bathroom. Camille opted for the latter.

“Hey?” Madeleine objected as Camille headed across the room. “You can’t go in there.”

Camille stopped at the door, her hand resting on the knob, and glanced over her shoulder. She tried to stop it, tried not to stoop to Madeleine’s level, but her pride interjected. “There’s nothing in there that I haven’t seen before.”

She didn’t wait for Madeleine’s response, just opened the door and hot steam rolled out. “Julian?” she called out, entering and closing the door behind her.

“Chéri?” Laughter chased his enduring term for her. “Have you come to join me?”

God, what nerve. She wasn’t about to take Madeleine’s sloppy seconds. Not today. But it was nice to know Julian was so virile. At least, he thought he was. And Julian wasn’t the kind of guy to start something he wasn’t certain he could finish.

Camille thought about what he’d told her about Madeleine making sure Camille caught them in bed. She wasn’t sure if he meant that literally or figuratively. And she didn’t have the courage to ask him. Whether or not Julian was sleeping with another woman wasn’t any of her business.

“Julian!” Camille stomped her foot on the tile. “My dress was not in the delivery from the designer in Paris.”

The water stopped. “What?” His hardened tone shredded the single word inquiry.

“My dress—” All her hopes for a trouble-free wedding were crushed in her diminishing, barely audible voice. “—It’s not here.”

By the time Julian opened the shower door, he’d wrapped a towel around his waist. Her disappointment was overshadowed by the view of his torso. Rippling muscles engraved on his bronzed skin, defined his manliness and nearly floored Camille.

Julian grabbed his cell phone off the nearby counter and hit the speed dial.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.